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30 U.S.C. § 2001 — Findings
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Congress finds that—
(1) in order to promote energy independence and meet the increasing demand for energy, the United States will require a diversified portfolio of substantially increased quantities of electricity, natural gas, and transportation fuels;
(2) according to the report submitted to Congress by the National Research Council entitled “Charting the Future of Methane Hydrate Research in the United States”, the total United States resources of gas hydrates have been estimated to be on the order of 200,000 trillion cubic feet;
(3) according to the report of the National Commission on Energy Policy entitled “Ending the Energy Stalemate—A Bipartisan Strategy to Meet America’s Energy Challenge”, and dated December 2004, the United States may be endowed with over one-fourth of the methane hydrate deposits in the world;
(4) according to the Energy Information Administration, a shortfall in natural gas supply from conventional and unconventional sources is expected to occur in or about 2020; and
(5) the National Academy of Sciences states that methane hydrate may have the potential to alleviate the projected shortfall in the natural gas supply.
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Congress finds that—
(1) in order to promote energy independence and meet the increasing demand for energy, the United States will require a diversified portfolio of substantially increased quantities of electricity, natural gas, and transportation fuels;
(2) according to the report submitted to Congress by the National Research Council entitled “Charting the Future of Methane Hydrate Research in the United States”, the total United States resources of gas hydrates have been estimated to be on the order of 200,000 trillion cubic feet;
(3) according to the report of the National Commission on Energy Policy entitled “Ending the Energy Stalemate—A Bipartisan Strategy to Meet America’s Energy Challenge”, and dated December 2004, the United States may be endowed with over one-fourth of the methane hydrate deposits in the world;
(4) according to the Energy Information Administration, a shortfall in natural gas supply from conventional and unconventional sources is expected to occur in or about 2020; and
(5) the National Academy of Sciences states that methane hydrate may have the potential to alleviate the projected shortfall in the natural gas supply.
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**(a) In general** The Secretary shall establish and carry out a program of research on marine mineral resources.
**(b) Program goal** The goal of the program shall be to—
(1) promote research, identification, assessment, and exploration of marine mineral resources in an environmentally responsible manner;
(2) assist in developing domestic technologies required for efficient and environmentally sound development of marine mineral resources;
(3) coordinate and promote the use of technologies developed with Federal assistance, and the use of available Federal assets, for research, identification, assessment, exploration, and development of marine mineral resources; and
(4) encourage academia and industry to conduct basic and applied research, on a joint basis, through grants, cooperative agreements, or contracts with the Federal Government.
**(c) Responsibilities of Secretary** In carrying out the program, the Secretary shall—
(1) promote and coordinate partnerships between industry, government, and academia to research, identify, assess, and explore marine mineral resources in an environmentally sound manner;
(2) undertake programs to develop the basic information necessary to the long-term national interest in marine mineral resources (including seabed mapping) and to ensure that data and information are accessible and widely disseminated as needed and appropriate;
(3) identify, and promote cooperation among agency programs that are developing, technologies developed by other Federal programs that may hold promise for facilitating undersea applications related to marine mineral resources, including technologies related to vessels and other platforms, underwater vehicles, survey and mapping systems, remote power sources, data collection and transmission systems,
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Except as otherwise provided, in this Act:
(1) **Department** — The term “Department” means the Department of Energy.
(2) **Institution of higher education**
(A) *In general* — The term “institution of higher education” has the meaning given the term in [section 1001(a) of title 20](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section1001/a&num=0&edition=prelim).
(B) *Inclusion* — The term “institution of higher education” includes an organization that—
(i) is organized, and at all times thereafter operated, exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the functions of one or more organizations referred to in subparagraph (A); and
(ii) is operated, supervised, or controlled by or in connection with one or more of those organizations.
(3) **National Laboratory** — The term “National Laboratory” means any of the following laboratories owned by the Department:
(A) Ames Laboratory.
(B) Argonne National Laboratory.
(C) Brookhaven National Laboratory.
(D) Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
(E) Idaho National Laboratory.
(F) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
(G) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
(H) Los Alamos National Laboratory.
(I) National Energy Technology Laboratory.
(J) National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
(K) Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
(L) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
(M) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.
(N) Sandia National Laboratories.
(O) Savannah River National Laboratory.
(P) Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
(Q) Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.
(4) **Secretary** — The term “Secretary” means the Secretary of Energy.
(5) **Small business concern** — The term “small business concern” has th
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**(a) In general** In order to achieve the purposes of this subchapter, the Secretary shall conduct a balanced set of programs of energy research, development, demonstration, and commercial application with the general goals of—
(1) increasing the efficiency of all energy intensive sectors through conservation and improved technologies;
(2) promoting diversity of energy supply;
(3) decreasing the dependence of the United States on foreign energy supplies;
(4) improving the energy security of the United States; and
(5) decreasing the environmental impact of energy-related activities.
**(b) Goals** The Secretary shall publish measurable cost and performance-based goals, comparable over time, with each annual budget submission in at least the following areas:
(1) Energy efficiency for buildings, energy-consuming industries, and vehicles.
(2) Electric energy generation (including distributed generation), transmission, and storage.
(3) Renewable energy technologies, including wind power, photovoltaics, solar thermal systems, geothermal energy, hydrogen-fueled systems, biomass-based systems, biofuels, and hydropower.
(4) Fossil energy, including power generation, onshore and offshore oil and gas resource recovery, and transportation fuels.
(5) Nuclear energy, including programs for existing and advanced reactors, and education of future specialists.
**(c) Public comment** The Secretary shall provide mechanisms for input on the annually published goals from industry, institutions of higher education, and other public sources.
**(d) Effect of goals** Nothing in subsection (a) or the annually published goals creates any new authority for any Federal agency, or may be used by any Federal agency, to support the establishment of regulatory standards or regulatory requi
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In this subchapter:
(1) **Departmental mission** — The term “departmental mission” means any of the functions vested in the Secretary by the Department of Energy Organization Act ([42 U.S.C. 7101](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section7101&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.) or other law.
(2) **Hispanic-serving institution** — The term “Hispanic-serving institution” has the meaning given the term in [section 1101a(a) of title 20](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section1101a/a&num=0&edition=prelim).
(3) **Nonmilitary energy laboratory** — The term “nonmilitary energy laboratory” means a National Laboratory other than a National Laboratory listed in subparagraph (G), (H), or (N) of [section 15801(3) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section15801/3&num=0&edition=prelim).
(4) **Part B institution** — The term “part B institution” has the meaning given the term in [section 1061 of title 20](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section1061&num=0&edition=prelim).
(5) **Single-purpose research facility** — The term “single-purpose research facility” means—
(A) any of the primarily single-purpose entities owned by the Department; or
(B) any other organization of the Department designated by the Secretary.
(6) **University** — The term “university” has the meaning given the term “institution of higher education” in [section 1001 of title 20](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title20-section1001&num=0&edition=prelim).
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**(a) Establishment**
(1) **In general** — The Secretary shall carry out research, development, demonstration, and commercial application programs in fossil energy, including activities under this part, with the goal of improving the efficiency, effectiveness, and environmental performance of fossil energy production, upgrading, conversion, and consumption.
(2) **Objectives** — The programs described in paragraph (1) shall take into consideration the following objectives:
(A) Increasing the energy conversion efficiency of all forms of fossil energy through improved technologies.
(B) Decreasing the cost of all fossil energy production, generation, and delivery.
(C) Promoting diversity of energy supply.
(D) Decreasing the dependence of the United States on foreign energy supplies.
(E) Improving United States energy security.
(F) Decreasing the environmental impact of energy-related activities, including technology development to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and associated emissions of heavy metals within coal combustion residues and gas streams resulting from fossil fuel use and production.
(G) Increasing the export of fossil energy-related equipment, technology, including emissions control technologies, and services from the United States.
(H) Decreasing the cost of emissions control technologies for fossil energy production, generation, and delivery.
(I) Significantly lowering greenhouse gas emissions for all fossil fuel production, generation, delivery, and utilization technologies.
(J) Developing carbon removal and utilization technologies, products, and methods that result in net reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, including direct air capture and storage, and carbon use and reuse for commercial application.
(K) Improving
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None of the funds authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary by this subchapter may be used to award a management and operating contract for a National Laboratory (excluding those named in subparagraphs (G), (H), (N), and (O) of [section 15801(3) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section15801/3&num=0&edition=prelim)), unless such contract is competitively awarded, or the Secretary grants, on a case-by-case basis, a waiver. The Secretary may not delegate the authority to grant such a waiver and shall submit to Congress a report notifying it of the waiver, and setting forth the reasons for the waiver, at least 60 days prior to the date of the award of such contract.
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TITLE 30—MINERAL LANDS AND MINING
§ 2001
1 So in original. The semicolon probably should be a colon.
United States, 1 center shall concentrate pri-
marily on research in deep seabed and near-
shore environments of islands, and 1 center shall
concentrate primarily on research in arctic and
cold water regions.
(c) Criteria
In designating a center under this section, the
Secretary shall give priority to a university
that—
(1) administers a federally funded center for
marine minerals research;
(2) matriculates students for advanced de-
grees in marine geological sciences, nonenergy
natural resources, and related fields of science
and engineering;
(3) is a United States university with estab-
lished programs and facilities that primarily
focus on marine mineral resources;
(4) has engaged in collaboration and coopera-
tion with industry, governmental agencies,
and other universities in the field of marine
mineral resources;
(5) has demonstrated significant engineer-
ing, development, and design experience in
two or more of the following areas; 1
(A) seabed exploration systems;
(B) marine mining systems; and
(C) marine mineral processing systems;
and
(6) has been designated by the Secretary as
a State Mining and Mineral Resources Re-
search Institute.
(d) Center activities
A center shall—
(1) provide technical assistance to the Sec-
retary concerning marine mineral resources;
(2) advise the Secretary on pertinent inter-
national activities in marine mineral re-
sources development;
(3) engage in research, training, and edu-
cation transfer associated with the character-
ization and utilization of marine mineral re-
sources; and
(4) promote the efficient identification, as-
sessment, exploration, and management of
marine mineral resources i
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